Novus database

[Keeper]

Why didn't they just take the Hard Drives or whatever storage units had. Why download when the dvd is available. Just my two cents!

they considered that on-screen - but they'd have to demolish the bunker. the hard drives are built into the wall.

with the bunker already unstable, it's debatable whether they'd have escaped at all - and the terminals seemed fairly close together. without knowing the details of construction, they'd risk destroying the database with explosives.

[garhkal]

Yup. That Novan elder who went with us mentioned the databanks were built into the walls..

[beafly]

Assumptions:

Limited local storage in the archive prevented them from storing a complete copy of the compressed data.

The compression (highly parallel, limited by processing units) and wireless transmission technologies (parallel limited by frequency, serial otherwise) used are much faster, but relative to today's technologies, ie They could compress data far faster than they could transmit it.

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My hypothesis is that they needed to start transmission of the data as quickly as possible. Hence the streaming solution. They could begin compression and immediately start streaming the output directly to the Destiny.

By the time they realized that they needed to search the data for the cure, the compression algorithm had already completed, but the they were still streaming data.

Therefore, they were stuck with a very large chunk of compressed data that would need to be un-compressed prior to searching. And because they don't have enough storage to keep both compressed and un-compressed data, un-compressing the data would necessitate stopping the transfer.

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Aside, I agree. Watching blue bars is a waste of time, they would have transfered remote management capability to the Destiny and managed the process from there in safety and relative comfort, or pitched in moving supplies.

Rush had the correct idea, though I'm unclear why he didn't just query the database for supplies listing, go directly to the location of the crates and tag them as priority 1.

[garhkal]

Didn't he go up to that store room AFTER using the terminal?? Can't remember.

[Pharaoh Atem]

Yup. That Novan elder who went with us mentioned the databanks were built into the walls..

no brody did

[Snicker433]

I loved this episode... I was also wondering why they had to be there while the upload was in progress, they could of sat in orbit until the transfer was terminated by the Novus computer being destroyed. I still say they should of ripped apart the computer and taken the HDD's with them... Nothing is Hardwired!!!

And it was Park who said they were built-in.

[garhkal]

Maybe them trying to break the walls up to get them would have caused the place to colapse sooner.

[Snicker433]

If its a question of stability then your right, the bunker would have most likely collapsed. But i still don't understand why they had to be there for the up-link.

[garhkal]

They didn't. It was that they felt, since supplies were being grabbed, and that would take time, they might as well stay and 'investigate'..

[KEK]

If its a question of stability then your right, the bunker would have most likely collapsed. But i still don't understand why they had to be there for the up-link.

It's just a plot device really. But for all intents and purposes it's an alien system, so who knows how it might work.